My iPod, Alligator Pumps & A Date Rape Story

Being the blog addict that I am, I actually found the time to post a new entry in spite of my chaotic schedule. Anyway, here’s the latest… Weeks ago I finally got my Apple iPod. It’s the white one. It just looks like a mini iPod coz it’s in a blue silicone casing/protector. Wouldn’t want to scratch it, of course. Good thing I waited a bit, coz I got the latest 4th Generation one. Actually, my hana and I were suppose to share it. Well, that is, until he heard some of the songs I uploaded… Thought he likes Usher and Beyonce. He’s not really into hiphop and R&B. So he said that I can have it and he’ll just get another one for himself. Yipee! Here’s my iTunes playlist. A total of 150 songs uploaded. 4,850 more songs to go. Wow! Take note, all these were not downloaded from the net. These all came from our CD collection. Remember the pink alligator-skin pumps I so wanted for my birthday last August? Well, at long last, I got it too. It’s not actually the one I really wanted (Steve Madden, baby pink, 4 inch heel) but it’ll do. The one I got is fuschia pink, alligator skin with a 3 inch heel. And it’s half the price of the one from Steve Madden. What a steal! Ok. Enough of the material girl talk. Here’s a story I read from this month’s issue of Good Housekeeping (Is Your Son Gay…by Veronica C. Uy). It’s pretty horrendous… CASE#2: PARENTS ARRANGED LESBIAN’S RAPE Very Feminine in her gestures and choices of clothes, no one would think that Cindi is a lesbian. Although she has always been attracted to other girls, she only had her first serious lesbian relationship when she was 20, with a classmate at an all-girls college. Her rich Chinese family was totally against it. “My parents tried everything to keep us apart. They took me out of the school. They assigned a driver/bodyguard to me. They didn’t allow me to go out by myself.” But Cindi and her lover, who is also from a rich family, still found ways to meet each other. Thinking that a sexual experience with a man would “cure” her, Cindi’s parents arranged for her rape. They begged her to date a “suitable” man. Even if she didn’t want to, Cindi wanted to please her parents and agreed. During dinner, she drank something that made her groggy. Her date took her home and her parents told him to sleep over. “I was drugged and wasn’t aware of anything anymore.” The following day, Cindi woke up naked beside her date. Her parents told her she had to marry the man to save the family from shame. “[My parents] didn’t see what they did as a crime. The still think that what they did was for my own good. But I was appalled. I couldn’t believe that they could be capable of something so horrible.” She eloped with her lover and they have been in hiding since. Cindi is now 26. Violent reactions, anyone?